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How to troll right

Posted by Anonymous

15 Replies

My pointers on how to make a successful troll post, feel free to add your own.

First it needs to be believable. Embellish something that truly happened to you, your sister, your neighbors cat. Then when people ask you questions you can easily answer them. It's harder when you create a story out of thin air.

Second do your research, know your facts because if it sounds fishy someone is going to google and prove you wrong.

Third when posting pictures dig a bit deeper. Don't just chose the first one that pops up. Dig deeper or don't post any. There are apps and websites that allow you to reverse image search making it incredibly easy to prove you wrong.

Trolling bothers me because I TRY to be helpful and it pisses me off when posters are researching to be helpful and it is all a joke to the poster. I wish that people who want to troll would just go to a creative writing site.

Quoting Anonymous 2: Did the 12 yr old pregnant troll delete? I honestly will never understand trolling. Is your life that pathetic that you make stories up online and pretend to be devastated?

Although OP (not this post but of a suspected troll post) could be trolling, the situation described could be close to another reader's who might be considering asking for advice, but gets scared off by reactions of respondents.

Therefore, if I have advice, I give. Not necessarily for OP, but for Timid Lurker.

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